Glenwood
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Glenwood has been given to 2,247 babies in the U.S. since 1902. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1920, with 66 recorded.
Babies named Glenwood, 2001
1 in 748,000
Glenwood over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Glenwood?
Glenwood had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2001
- 1 in 748,000
- 5 of 3,742,181 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 388,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2001
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,778 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Glenwood sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2001 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Glenwood. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Glenwoods were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Glenwood was born before 1938 — so the typical Glenwood is around 87 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 20.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 721
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 20.4% of all recorded uses (459).
Is Glenwood rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1920 (66)
- Years since peak
- 105
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.9% average annual change
Spellings of Glenwood
Glenwood is not the most common spelling — Linwood is, with 59.1% against Glenwood's 10.4%.
Where Glenwood is used
Across 1910–2025, Glenwood was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 103,800 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 16,667
- 2Virginia1 in 20,000
- 3Maine1 in 25,000
- 4Missouri1 in 33,333
- 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 6Florida1 in —
- 7Maryland1 in —
- 8Michigan1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Glenwood has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Glenwood by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Glenwood
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Glenwood
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Glenwood, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Glenwood
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.